Franklin Evans has two new video in an exhibiton at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York.

"Franklin Evans is represented in the show by two videos that reference the homoerotic nature of baseball. His densely layered drawing style is transposed to video through layered images of his own drawings, overlaid with digital markings and musical excerpts that set the amusingly frenetic yet erotic mood."

Stas Orlovski was one of fifteen C.O.L.A. 2008 Fellows. The exhibition ended on July 13, 2008. If you would like to purchase a catalog from the exhibition please contact the gallery.

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is pleased to award the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships to fifteen local artists. The professional and artistic caliber of these 15 Fellows is the reason why C.O.L.A. has been nationally recognized as one of the most prestigious municipal arts funding programs in the country. Los Angeles is one of a handful of municipalities that offers individual artists grants on a national level. Since 1990, the Department of Cultural Affairs has awarded over $47 million dollars to local artists, arts organizations, and arts events.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Penelope Gottlieb is included in a group exhibition at Rohrer Fine Arts.

Rohrer Fine Art presents Nature Morte/Dead Nature: a group exhibition of contemporary artists Ori Gersht, Penelope Gottlieb, Kaoru Mansour, Melvin Martinez, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Andrew Taylor and Timothy Tompkins. A special opening reception with the artists will take place on Saturday, May 10th from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition runs through July 5th.

Emilie was an artist in residence at the Hui Press fine art publishing studio at the Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center on the Island of Maui, HI, where she created a series of etchings conjointly with poet Lytle Shaw’s text-based project interpreting Captain James Cook’s Three Voyages Round the World. The prints are expected to be published by the Hui Press in November 2008

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Nathan Larramendy Gallery will have a solo presentation of Emilie Clark’s most recent body of work, Maxwell’s Lair, exploring the 19th Century naturalist Martha Maxwell, at NEXT Art Fair. NEXT is a new invitational contemporary art fair at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, concurrent with Art Chicago, April 25 -28, 2008. Please contact the gallery if you would like a complimentary pass.

"Printmaking was one of the very first replication technologies and is now poised, as it integrates digital media and expands its conceptual borders, to occupy a pivotal position in contemporary art and culture

This conference will encourage critical discourse on such issues as digital media and expanded notions of print media, print theory, the plight of material and process specific disciplines, marginalization, and understanding printmaking's shift to a place of leadership in the postmodern terrain." -SGCC

"Focusing on photography, Stretching the Truth will feature works by twenty-six artists who demonstrate this medium's rapidly expanding boundaries. With a basis in models or sets of constructed images, or with the employment of innovative processes including multiple exposures, repeated or layered negatives, digital augmentation, or collaged prints in both two-dimensional and sculptural form, the works manipulate the medium to present a new reality that questions the "truthfulness" generally associated with photographic representation." -Jennifer Jankauskas

Franklin Evans layers references to landscape, biography, and gesture into complex imaginary spaces that reference specific places (like Nevada, where he was born) and personal history and identity. A studio visit with the New York-based artist, January 2007

How did it happen? Eight out of eight. All women. Whatever the reasons, the current MFA candidates at Virginia Commonwealth University constitute a welcome inversion of the typically male dominated art and academic worlds. One thing is certain: it was not the result of affirmative action; the strongest applicants just happened to be female. Nor is it all that surprising, considering the proliferation of women artists making some of the best work today. What sets this group apart, especially with the current climate of dog-eat-dog competition, is the manner in which they behave as a unit, an old-school gang, despite their diverse backgrounds and points of view. Amid their individual triumphs and adversities, they embrace each other to move forward collectively, revealing a profound sensitivity to the issues and concerns of the world around them. Each of their contributions stands squarely on its own, but the collective exhibition of their work demonstrates how entire creative communities come into being and flourish: with the right combination of talent and luck. The fact that they are all women merely makes this transformation more vivid.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Penelope Gottlieb will have work in "Blown Away" at KrannertArt Museum. "Blown Away" features work in a variety of media by artistswho address the character, meaning, and implications of explosions-from the intensity of an impending event to the sensation of therelease and the reverberations of the ensuing shockwaves.

Curators: Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox

The show will run from January 25 - March 30, 2008An opening reception will be held on Thursday, January 24th, 6-8pm

About Me

The Nathan Larramendy Gallery presented its inaugural exhibition September 2003. The gallery is located in Ojai, a historic town in California and is founded on the philosophy that relevant contemporary art can survive anywhere, even outside of a major urban environment. With this belief, Nathan Larramendy presents up to ten solo and group exhibitions a year consisting of emerging and established artists working with conceptually rigorous ideas. The gallery, as a part of a larger community, aims to cultivate collaboration with gallery artists from around the country, other contemporary art galleries, and non-profit art organizations.
The Nathan Larramendy Gallery participates in a number of art fairs including PULSE - Miami, New York and London. We were awarded the PULSE Prize (best in show) at PULSE - Miami in 2006 for the solo installation, Cakewalk, by San Francisco based artist Travis Summerville. The gallery has received reviews in Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Beautiful Decay, Artweek, NY Arts Magazine, Art Ltd., Santa Barbara Magazine, Ventura County Star, VC Reporter, Art Blogging LA and numerous other art blogs.